"AI's ability to recognize visual categories and images is now pretty close to what human beings can manage, and probably better than a lot of people's, actually. AI can have more knowledge of detailed categories, like animals and so on."

-- Stuart J. Russell

#Animal Quotes #People Quotes #Categories Quotes

“A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth â€” thatâ€™s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.”
“Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.”
“The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.”

Source : A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley
“If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.”
“I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.”
“I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.”
“I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.”
“When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.”

Source : "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with … Tyson Chandler". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. December 18, 2011.

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